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Vocabulary

perspicacious

Could you please check if I am using the word "perspicacious" correctly?

Being a very perspicacious person, he understood her intentions before she even finished her story.

Not even a perspicacious person could understand what they are fighting about.

Years of experience, acquired knowledge, and patience helped her become a perspicacious doctor.

If I had your perspicacity, I would not have to read the same story three times before I could understand the essence of it.

Can a student who understands math problems, who learns quickly be called a perspicacious student?

Thank you for your help

Hope
  

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Hi Hope, They all seem OK, except for the last. Can a student who understands math problems, who learns quickly be called a perspicacious student? Perspicacity is not the same as intelligence.

— Clive

  • Hi Hope, They all seem OK, except for the last.
  • Can a student who understands math problems, who learns quickly be called a perspicacious student?
  • Perspicacity is not the same as intelligence.
  • I see perspicacity as relating more to wisdom and good judgement in human situations than to math.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi Hope,

They all seem OK, except for the last.

Can a student who understands math problems, who learns quickly be called a perspicacious student?

Perspicacity is not the same as intelligence. I see perspicacity as relating more to wisdom and good judgement in human situations than to math.

Best wishes, Clive
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